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The Aiguille summit contains a panoramic viewing platform, a café and a gift shop. Even in summer, temperatures in the open viewing areas can fall to −10 °C (14 °F), and visitors require both warm clothing and protection from very bright sunlight. Because of the danger, tourists are unable to leave the visitor facilities on the Midi's summit. However, mountaineers and skiers are able to pass through a tunnel to reach the steep and extremely exposed ice ridge to descend to the glacier below.
In December 2013, a glass skywalk called "Step into the Void" opened at the top of the Aiguille du Midi peak. The view is 1,035 m (3,396 ft) straight down, and one can see Mont Blanc to the south. A further tourist attraction called "Le Tube" opened in 2016. It consists of an enclosed tubular walkway that completely circles the summit.
During summer months only, the Vallée Blanche Cable Car crosses "peak-to-peak" from Aiguille du Midi to Pointe Helbronner (3,462 m (11,358 ft)) at the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Massif. Pointe Helbronner is served by another cable car, Skyway Monte Bianco, to Entrèves, near the Italian town of Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley. This makes it possible to travel "by air" from Chamonix, France to Courmayeur, Italy – a route normally traversed by the highway running through the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
Am Samstagmorgen den 10.Juni 2023 fuhr ich wieder einmal ganz früh nach Oberwesel an der linken Rheinstrecke (KBS 471 .
Relativ wenig geparkte Autos im Bild und fast noch kein Autoverkehr auf der B9 und im Ort und ein klarer und sonniger Morgen und einige interessante Züge gen Süden im Zulauf.
Ich stand weiter auf der Fußgängerbrücke über die B9 kurz vor dem Bahnhof:
Weiter rechts gibt es bekanntermaßen viele Straßenschilder, Lampenmasten und Flaggenmasten und das Motiv von dort von früher ist eigentlich heute für die Tonne.
Links durch die Häuser zu sehen ist auch der Kuhhirtentaum als Teil der Stadtmauer und im Hintergrund natürlich auch die Mutter-Rosa Kapelle und der Steingassenturm und dahinter der Katztenturm sowie rechts der bekannte große Ochsenturm.
Nach dem schönen HSL Zug kam der nicht minder fotogene DGS 40111 aus Gent Kluizendok Zuid in Belgien nach Mortara in Italien von Crossrail und der der war voll beladen und bespannt mit der 486 510 ( Werbelok The Alpinists in Europe) von der Muttergesellschaft BLS Cargo.
Die fotogenen gelben Container in der Zug Mitte gehören der Fa. Tailormade Logistics die ihren Sitz im Hafengebiet von Gent hat und mit über 10 festen täglichen Reservierungen ist Tailormade Logistics einer der Hauptnutzer dieser Verbindung nach Mortara.
Ptilinopus regina
The Fruit-Doves contain some of the most stunning birds on the planet, and there are several that can be seen in Australia.
This is probably the most widespread, but still confined to the north and east.
A bird that is more easily heard than seen.
The Fen contains many different habitats in its 150 hectares. It is also home to over 200 different bird species. September and October are the busiest months for spotting birds at the Fen. In the winter months, many birds take shelter where there is open water and a good, natural food supply.
Surrey BC Canada
A mashup of a guilty pleasure from the cupboard and an electric gadget. The grainy-looking orange gummi bear is what's left of a container of sour gummi bears from the bulk section of a local market. The orange ones are my favorite, so in an OCD-driven way, I work on other colors and save the orange ones for last. The granular coating contains malic acid, the substance that naturally give sour fruits their tang and is used as an additive to impart sourness, usually in candy.
The orange illuminated pushbutton switch was purchased along with the red and green ones I've posted before. I originally planned to feature the sweet by itself until inspiration struck. I hope you all like this!
Dedicated to the late Hans Holt.
Explored July 26, 2023 (Explore takeover day; Orange theme)
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Carl, Misener, Bald Cemetery 1798, Northwest side Carl St./Towpath Rd., N. of Port Robinson:
This cemetery contains original gravestones of early settlers Barbara Misener, Hannah Misener and Thomas Bald. It is closely associated with the first two non-native residents of the Port Robinson area and their families - UEL John Carl and Leonard Misener; descendants of Thomas Bald are also buried here. Among the 75 unmarked graves are, undoubtedly, those of victims of the cholera epidemic which raged among canal workers and their families between 1832 – 34.
According the online information , our Milky Way galaxy contains tens of billions of potentially habitable planets, but we have no idea whether we’re alone. For now Earth is the only world known to harbor life, and among all the living things on our planet we assume Homo sapiens is the only species ever to have developed advanced technology.
The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is an irregular galaxy, the closest neighbouring galaxy to the Earth's location in the Milky Way, being located about 25,000 light-years (236,000,000,000,000,000 km) away from our Solar System.
Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is located in the same part of the sky as the constellation Canis Major. Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere.The southern celestial hemisphere is also called the Southern Sky. Some constellations in the northern sky are Leo, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.
We hope that humans are able to travel that far one day if we are able to survive the dangers like asteroids, comets, alien invasion, global warming ,climate change, racism, nationalism, hunger, wars, viruses (like coronavirus), sicknesses, genetic-mutation, etc.
Tilted red tower marks entrance to Polish war museum by Kwadrat, Gdansk
An angled tower wrapped in red concrete panels and glazing contains the entrance to this second world war museum, which is mostly housed beneath the surface of a public plaza in the Polish city of Gdansk. A jury headed by Daniel Libeskind awarded Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat the project for the Museum of the Second World War following an international competition in 2010. The studio, which is based in the nearby town of Gdynia, said it put forward a proposal that was "a bit risky", but also "something unusual, very distinctive and memorable".
A tower rising 40.5 metres above the new public square provides the dominant feature of the building, which is located next to a canal in a district called Wiadrownia that was destroyed during fighting in 1945. "The idea behind the design is simple enough," said the architects, "to position the main part of the museum underground so as not to completely use up the small plot of land intended for investment. We have concealed the other functions in a sculptural form. In this way, it was possible to find space for a vast square, and the whole premise became symbolic."
The project comprises three distinct but connected parts, with the underground spaces dedicated to the past, the plaza representing the present, and the tower symbolising the future. The monolithic tower features surfaces set at angles as much as 45 degrees from the vertical, lending it a dynamic appearance that alters when viewed from different directions. Three of its four trapezoidal facades are clad in terracotta-red panels, while the fourth side and kinked roof are filled in with glazing that allows natural light to flood into the interior.
"This simple sculptural form, devoid of literal meaning, evokes various associations," said the architects. "It has already been likened to a bastion, a barrier, a crumbling house or a bunker, and when illuminated at night, it resembles a burning candle. At the same time, it fits in with the city image and the geometry of shipyard cranes – the symbol of the port of Gdansk."
The glazed facade of the tower incorporates an entrance at its base, which is situated at basement level and is reached by a wide set of steps leading down from the plaza. The tower contains a library, lecture halls and a restaurant with a viewpoint looking out across the city skyline. The majority of the 23,000 m2 building is located beneath the paved public square, which aims to provide people with a place to meet, socialise and relax. Staircases descend from the entrance through a large void to the level of the ticket office, cloakroom and exhibition spaces dedicated to telling the story of the war in Poland. A corridor with a narrow skylight at its apex guides visitors through a series of austere exhibition rooms featuring a palette of concrete, steel and oak details.
In addition to digital displays and physical exhibits, the spaces include several recreations of places such as a pre-war shopping street, ruined buildings surrounding a Soviet tank, and the interior of a Warsaw apartment reflecting different stages of the conflict. At the level of the plaza, a bridge connects the tower with a long, narrow volume containing offices. A walkway that passes beneath the bridge is lined with gabion cages filled with red brick and rubble from Gdansk. A further wedge-shaped structure that emerges from the square contains the entrance to an underground parking garage. Both this volume and the offices are clad in the same red tiles as the tower to create a consistent aesthetic across the museum's different spaces.
Prisma is a photographic application that transforms normal photos into amazing images that attempt to replicate the human artistic touch. This phone-based app turns photographs into digital art in the style of drawings, watercolors, and paintings.
This two-acre plot of earth at the corner of El Camino Real ("The King's Highway") and Baldwin Street in San Mateo, California is perhaps the most venerable and historic site in the city. For over 150 years (since 1866) it has been the location of the Episcopal Church of St. Matthew, making it the oldest continually-used location in the city.
The devastating 1906 earthquake ruined the 1866 church and its fabulous bell tower. On May 15, 1910, the congregation buried a new cornerstone, containing all the artifacts from the original stone. Under the spiritual guidance of Reverend Neptune Blood William Gallaway, famed church architect Willis Polk engineered the new edifice. Considered one of the most beautiful houses of worship in California, it recalls the 11th century Stokes Poges Church in London, where Thomas Gray reportedly penned the poem "Elegy in a Country Churchyard."
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Metallic container painted in an amazing purple color near an agricultural building.
Container métallique paint d'une couleur étonnante aux abords d'un bâtiment agricole.
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Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 430 genera in 15 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis.
The closest relatives of mantises are the termites and cockroaches (Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects (Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies (Mantispidae). Mantises are mostly ambush predators, but a few ground-dwelling species are found actively pursuing their prey. They normally live for about a year. In cooler climates, the adults lay eggs in autumn, then die. The eggs are protected by their hard capsules and hatch in the spring. Females sometimes practice sexual cannibalism, eating their mates after copulation.
Mantises were considered to have supernatural powers by early civilizations, including Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, and Assyria. A cultural trope popular in cartoons imagines the female mantis as a femme fatale. Mantises are among the insects most commonly kept as pets.
Los Angeles. California.
Contains: IC 4605, NGC 6144, rho Oph nebula, IC 4604, IC 4603, M 4, NGC 6121, The star 22Sco, The star Antares (αSco), The star ρOph, The star Al Niyat (σSco), The star οSco
Resolution: 5340x4400
Dates: July 31, 2006
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 16x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 16x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 48x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 16x600" bin 1x1
Integration: 16.0 hours
First, thanks to Steve Mazlin for sharing this data with me (Data which Jim Misti was also involved in collecting).
Had a few issues with aligning one of the panels so it's been sitting on the hard drive for a while.
A look at the wonderful Rho Ophiuchi. A four-panel mosaic taken on Steve's FSQ STL-11k combo.
Hope you enjoy.
A set of monumental shelving – two stories high – forms the entrance to the permanent design exhibition. Like a giant type case it contains objects that hint at the wide range to be found in the design collection: from visionary ideas to everyday objects, from valuable one-offs to mass products, from a racing bike’s prototype to the finished model for series production of a car body.
“The humanization of society by design” – is the vision that always gives design new impetus.
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum zählt mit über 100.000 Objekten aus den Bereichen Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Computer Culture, Mobility und Kunsthandwerk zu den größten und bedeutendsten Museen für angewandte Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts weltweit. Im Bereich des Industrial und Product Design gilt das Museum als führend. Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum gilt ebenfalls als ältestes Designmuseum. Idee und Initiative zur Gründung des Museums sind eng mit der 1907 in München formierten Werkbundbewegung verflochten. Die seit 1912 aufgebaute "Moderne Vorbildersammlung" war Grundstock der Neuen Sammlung – The Design Museum, die 1925 als Staatsinstitution etabliert und 1926 als Museum eröffnet wurde mit dem Ziel, »Das Neue« von höchster Qualität aufzuspüren, zu sammeln und zu bewahren.
Von Beginn an hat sich Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum in ihrem Verständnis von den gleichzeitig existierenden Museen für angewandte Kunst oder Museen für Kunst und Gewerbe abgesetzt, indem sie sich dezidiert der seinerzeitigen Moderne und damit der zeitgenössischen Formgestaltung verpflichtete. Bis heute prägt dieser Gründungsanspruch die Programmatik der Neuen Sammlung – The Design Museum.
Die internationalen Sammlungsbestände umfassen schwerpunktmäßig einen Zeitraum von 1900 bis zur unmittelbaren Gegenwart.
Die Museumsbestände sind mit über 20 Sammlungsgebieten weit gespannt. Neben Objekten des Industrial Design umfassen sie wichtige Sammelfelder wie Keramik, Metall oder Glas und Möbel, Textilien oder Schmuck.
With more than 100,000 items from the areas of industrial design, graphic design, computer culture, mobility, and arts and crafts, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum is one of the largest and most important museums of applied art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum is a leader in the fields of industrial and product design. The museum is also considered the world’s oldest design museum. The idea and initiative for its foundation are closely interwoven with the Werkbund movement formed in 1907 in Munich. The ‘Moderne Vorbildersammlung’, or Modern Samples Collection, established from 1912 onwards, formed the backbone of the Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, which formally became a state institution in 1925 and opened its doors as a museum in 1926 with the aim of identifying, collecting and preserving new work of the highest quality.
From the very beginning, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum distinguished itself from the museums of applied arts or arts-&-crafts museums that existed at that time – by consciously championing what was then modern and thus cutting-edge, contemporary design. To this very day, this clear agenda defines the objectives of the Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum.
The collection’s international holdings are focused primarily on a time frame from 1900 to the immediate present. The museum holdings span a broad range with collections covering more than 20 different thematic areas. Alongside objects of industrial design, they include important collection fields such as ceramics, metal or glass and furniture, textiles or jewelry.
The nearby galaxy Messier 33 contains a star-forming region called NGC 604 where some 200 hot, young, massive stars reside. The cool dust and warmer gas in this stellar nursery appear as the wispy structures in an optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope. In between these filaments are giant voids that are filled with hot, X-ray-emitting gas. Astronomers think these bubbles are being blown off the surfaces of the young and massive stars throughout NGC 604.
NGC 604 also likely contains an extreme member of the class of colliding-wind binaries, as reported in a recent paper. It is the first candidate source in this class to be discovered in M33 and the most distant example known, and shares several properties with the famous, volatile system called Eta Carinae, located in our galaxy.
Chandra’s X-ray data (blue) are combined in this image with optical data from Hubble (purple).
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This area contains several Nebula (North American and Pelican) as well as star clusters. These are typically referred to as emission Nebulas. Lots of gas and dust floating in space. If you have questions about how I took this image - give me a shout! This is a superset of the last image I uploaded. Taken under Fairfax, Virginia skies
“La cosa più insignificante racchiude un po' d'ignoto. Troviamolo.”
“The most insignificant thing contains some of the unknown. We find it.”
Guy de Maupassant, Pierre e Jean
Copyright © 2011 Katia Celestini. Tutti i diritti riservati.
Contains sofa, rug, coffee table, side table, ornaments, book stack, carafe & glass, floor lamp & frame collection.
Sofa seats 6 with MF/FF/MM/MMF/FFM menus - texture change sofa, coffee table & rug.
A pack of Polaroid pack film contains 10 shots. I had one pack of Polaroid 100 Blue. Polaroid Week lasts six days, two shots a day, for a total of 12 shots per person. I had a hole of one day/two shots. But I found an unused box of New55 Color in my stash. New55 Color had this thing where it reproduces blues well, but there's a border around the edge of most shots that's yellow. Blue and yellow....
I shot this at Marineland in Florida with my Pacemaker Speed Graphic. Ukraine has a lengthy coastline on the Black Sea. Russia wants to control that coastline and make Ukraine a landlocked country, unable to export goods by sea without dealing with Russia. One of the ways they do that is with mines. There are mines floating freely in the Black Sea set loose by the Orcs. On land, retreating Orcs also set boobytraps on corpses of people they killed and on toys likely to be picked up by children. The Ukrainian Deminers Association cleans up these mines. You can support their efforts at www.uda.org.ua/en/
Normally photographers separate out the meteors from the background to create a composite image. I decided to try a few composites where I left the stars in. They trace their path through our sky nicely, like a star trails image, without fully eclipsing our view of the meteors.
This image contains a real reflection, as in all of my images (I consider undisclosed faked reflections to be unethical).
Captrain 185 650-9 mit einem Containerzug auf der KBS 110 zwischen Schwarzenbek und Büchen in Müssen
Captrain 185 650-9 with a container train on KBS 110 between Schwarzenbek and Büchen in Müssen
A little late but light painting guru Led Eddie put me onto this a while back. I hope I did it some justice. Thanks Ed.
EGP 140 627-1 mit einem Containerzug auf der KBS 110 zwischen Lüneburg und Winsen in der Nähe von Sangenstedt
EGP 140 627-1 with a container train on the KBS 110 between Lüneburg and Winsen near Sangenstedt
Stóra-Dimon | Suðurland (South Iceland)
This is the last photo I'll be posting from our recent trip to Iceland. However, because there were species we either didn't see or didn't get many shots of this time round - such as the Rock Ptarmigan - I'm going to be adding a few previously unpublished images from our last visit in 2015. Whilst I enjoyed both trips, I don't think we'll be returning, so I'm going to use this opportunity to make sure my Flickr Iceland album contains all the photos I want it to, particularly as the album I had on my original website is now effectively lost.
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WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY ADVENTURES
'the experiences, the places, the species and more ....'
In respect of my new 'reincarnated' website www.tickspics.com I'm still spending all my current free time in trying to make it 'mobile friendly' - a rather thankless, but necessary task to comply with Google's SEO requirements. As soon as that is out of the way, I'll be regularly adding new content including an extended write-up about both our Iceland trips.
From my set entitled “Roses”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607214064416/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A rose is a perennial flowering shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp thorns. Most are native to Asia, with smaller numbers of species native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Natives, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance. [1]
The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound, with sharply toothed oval-shaped leaflets. The plants fleshy edible fruit is called a rose hip. Rose plants range in size from tiny, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 20 metres in height. Species from different parts of the world easily hybridize, which has given rise to the many types of garden roses.
The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Armenian vard, Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).[2][3]
Attar of rose is the steam-extracted essential oil from rose flowers that has been used in perfumes for centuries. Rose water, made from the rose oil, is widely used in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Rose hips are occasionally made into jam, jelly, and marmalade, or are brewed for tea, primarily for their high Vitamin C content. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce Rose hip seed oil, which is used in skin products.
The leaves of most species are 5–15 centimetres long, pinnate, with (3–) 5–9 (–13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets usually have a serrated margin, and often a few small prickles on the underside of the stem. The vast majority of roses are deciduous, but a few (particularly in Southeast Asia) are evergreen or nearly so.
The flowers of most species roses have five petals, with the exception of Rosa sericea, which usually has only four. Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four). These may be long enough to be visible when viewed from above and appear as green points alternating with the rounded petals. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.
The aggregate fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. Rose species that produce open-faced flowers are attractive to pollinating bees and other insects, thus more apt to produce hips. Many of the domestic cultivars are so tightly petalled that they do not provide access for pollination. The hips of most species are red, but a few (e.g. Rosa pimpinellifolia) have dark purple to black hips. Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, the hypanthium, which contains 5–160 "seeds" (technically dry single-seeded fruits called achenes) embedded in a matrix of fine, but stiff, hairs. Rose hips of some species, especially the Dog Rose (Rosa canina) and Rugosa Rose (Rosa rugosa), are very rich in vitamin C, among the richest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating birds such as thrushes and waxwings, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly finches, also eat the seeds.
While the sharp objects along a rose stem are commonly called "thorns", they are actually prickles — outgrowths of the epidermis (the outer layer of tissue of the stem). True thorns, as produced by e.g. Citrus or Pyracantha, are modified stems, which always originate at a node and which have nodes and internodes along the length of the thorn itself. Rose prickles are typically sickle-shaped hooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as Rosa rugosa and R. pimpinellifolia have densely packed straight spines, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots (both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes). Despite the presence of prickles, roses are frequently browsed by deer. A few species of roses only have vestigial prickles that have no points.
Roses are popular garden shrubs, as well as the most popular and commonly sold florists' flowers. In addition to their great economic importance as a florists crop, roses are also of great value to the perfume industry.
Many thousands of rose hybrids and cultivars have been bred and selected for garden use; most are double-flowered with many or all of the stamens having mutated into additional petals. As long ago as 1840 a collection numbering over one thousand different cultivars, varieties and species was possible when a rosarium was planted by Loddiges nursery for Abney Park Cemetery, an early Victorian garden cemetery and arboretum in England.
Twentieth-century rose breeders generally emphasized size and colour, producing large, attractive blooms with little or no scent. Many wild and "old-fashioned" roses, by contrast, have a strong sweet scent.
Roses thrive in temperate climates, though certain species and cultivars can flourish in sub-tropical and even tropical climates, especially when grafted onto appropriate rootstock.
Rose pruning, sometimes regarded as a horticultural art form, is largely dependent on the type of rose to be pruned, the reason for pruning, and the time of year it is at the time of the desired pruning.
Most Old Garden Roses of strict European heritage (albas, damasks, gallicas, etc.) are shrubs that bloom once yearly, in late spring or early summer, on two-year-old (or older) canes. As such, their pruning requirements are quite minimal, and are overall similar to any other analogous shrub, such as lilac or forsythia. Generally, only old, spindly canes should be pruned away, to make room for new canes. One-year-old canes should never be pruned because doing so will remove next year's flower buds. The shrubs can also be pruned back lightly, immediately after the blooms fade, to reduce the overall height or width of the plant. In general, pruning requirements for OGRs are much less laborious and regimented than for Modern hybrids.
Modern hybrids, including the hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, modern miniatures, and English roses, have a complex genetic background that almost always includes China roses (R. chinensis). China roses were evergrowing, everblooming roses from humid subtropical regions that bloomed constantly on any new vegetative growth produced during the growing season. Their modern hybrid descendants exhibit similar habits: Unlike Old Garden Roses, modern hybrids bloom continuously (until stopped by frost) on any new canes produced during the growing season. They therefore require pruning away of any spent flowering stem, in order to divert the plant's energy into producing new growth and thence new flowers.
Additionally, Modern Hybrids planted in cold-winter climates will almost universally require a "hard" annual pruning (reducing all canes to 8"–12" in height) in early spring. Again, because of their complex China rose background, Modern Hybrids are typically not as cold-hardy as European OGRs, and low winter temperatures often desiccate or kill exposed canes. In spring, if left unpruned, these damanged canes will often die back all the way to the shrub's root zone, resulting in a weakened, disfigured plant. The annual "hard" pruning of hybrid teas, floribundas, etc. should generally be done in early spring; most gardeners coincide this pruning with the blooming of forsythia shrubs. Canes should be cut about 1/2" above a vegetative bud (identifiable as a point on a cane where a leaf once grew).
For both Old Garden Roses and Modern Hybrids, any weak, damaged or diseased growth should be pruned away completely, regardless of the time of year. Any pruning of any rose should also be done so that the cut is made at a forty five degree angle above a vegetative bud. This helps the pruned stem callus over more quickly, and also mitigates moisture buildup over the cut, which can lead to disease problems.
For all general rose pruning (including cutting flowers for arrangements), sharp secateurs (hand-held, sickle-bladed pruners) should be used to cut any growth 1/2" or less in diameter. For canes of a thickness greater than 1/2", pole loppers or a small handsaw are generally more effective; secateurs may be damaged or broken in such instances.
Deadheading is the simple practice of manually removing any spent, faded, withered, or discoloured flowers from rose shrubs over the course of the blooming season. The purpose of deadheading is to encourage the plant to focus its energy and resources on forming new offshoots and blooms, rather than in fruit production. Deadheading may also be perfomed, if spent flowers are unsightly, for aethestic purposes. Roses are particularly responsive to deadheading.
Deadheading causes different effects on different varieties of roses. For continual blooming varieties, whether Old Garden roses or more modern hybrid varieties, deadheading allows the rose plant to continue forming new shoots, leaves, and blooms. For "once-blooming" varieties (that bloom only once each season), deadheading has the effect of causing the plant to form new green growth, even though new blooms will not form until the next blooming season.
For most rose gardeners, deadheading is used to refresh the growth of the rose plants to keep the rose plants strong, vibrant, and productive.
The rose has always been valued for its beauty and has a long history of symbolism. The ancient Greeks and Romans identified the rose with their goddesses of love referred to as Aphrodite and Venus. In Rome a wild rose would be placed on the door of a room where secret or confidential matters were discussed. The phrase sub rosa, or "under the rose", means to keep a secret — derived from this ancient Roman practice.
Early Christians identified the five petals of the rose with the five wounds of Christ. Despite this interpretation, their leaders were hesitant to adopt it because of its association with Roman excesses and pagan ritual. The red rose was eventually adopted as a symbol of the blood of the Christian martyrs. Roses also later came to be associated with the Virgin Mary.
Rose culture came into its own in Europe in the 1800s with the introduction of perpetual blooming roses from China. There are currently thousands of varieties of roses developed for bloom shape, size, fragrance and even for lack of prickles.
Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty. The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses (including Isis and Aphrodite), and is often used as a symbol of the Virgin Mary. 'Rose' means pink or red in a variety of languages (such as Romance languages, Greek, and Polish).
The rose is the national flower of England and the United States[4], as well as being the symbol of England Rugby, and of the Rugby Football Union. It is also the provincial flower of Yorkshire and Lancashire in England (the white rose and red rose respectively) and of Alberta (the wild rose), and the state flower of four US states: Iowa and North Dakota (R. arkansana), Georgia (R. laevigata), and New York[5] (Rosa generally). Portland, Oregon counts "City of Roses" among its nicknames, and holds an annual Rose Festival.
Roses are occasionally the basis of design for rose windows, such windows comprising five or ten segments (the five petals and five sepals of a rose) or multiples thereof; however most Gothic rose windows are much more elaborate and were probably based originally on the wheel and other symbolism.
A red rose (often held in a hand) is a symbol of socialism or social democracy; it is also used as a symbol by the British and Irish Labour Parties, as well as by the French, Spanish (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Brazilian, Dutch (Partij van de Arbeid) and European socialist parties. This originated when the red rose was used as a badge by the marchers in the May 1968 street protests in Paris. White Rose was a World War II non violent resistance group in Germany.
Roses are often portrayed by artists. The French artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté produced some of the most detailed paintings of roses.
Henri Fantin-Latour was also a prolific painter of still life, particularly flowers including roses. The Rose 'Fantin-Latour' was named after the artist.
Other impressionists including Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne have paintings of roses among their works.
Rose perfumes are made from attar of roses or rose oil, which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam distilling the crushed petals of roses. The technique originated in Persia (the word Rose itself is from Persian) then spread through Arabia and India, but nowadays about 70% to 80% of production is in the Rose Valley near Kazanluk in Bulgaria, with some production in Qamsar in Iran and Germany.[citation needed]
The Kaaba in Mecca is annually washed by the Iranian rose water from Qamsar. In Bulgaria, Iran and Germany, damask roses (Rosa damascena 'Trigintipetala') are used. In the French rose oil industry Rosa centifolia is used. The oil, pale yellow or yellow-grey in color, is sometimes called 'Rose Absolute' oil to distinguish it from diluted versions. The weight of oil extracted is about one three-thousandth to one six-thousandth of the weight of the flowers; for example, about two thousand flowers are required to produce one gram of oil.
The main constituents of attar of roses are the fragrant alcohols geraniol and l-citronellol; and rose camphor, an odourless paraffin. β-Damascenone is also a significant contributor to the scent.
Quotes
What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet act II, sc. ii
O, my love's like a red, red rose/That's newly sprung in June — Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. Mark Twain, Roughing It
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses. — James Oppenheim, "Bread and Roses"
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose — Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily (1913), a poem included in Geography and Plays.
Prayer wheels at Swayambhunath in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Prayers wheels are cylindrical wheels containing scrolls that are repeatedly inscribed with mantras. By turning the prayer wheels clockwise, it is believed that the mantras inside are activated and released. The mantras are said to purify negatvity, generate compassion, remove barriers to enlightenment and bring benefit to all sentient beings.
Swayambhunath is an ancient religious architecture atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city.
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The town contains two statues of Cyrano de Bergerac, subject of a famous play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, though the actual Cyrano never lived in Bergerac. An old stone statue stands on Place de la Myrpe, facing Place du Docteur Cayla. A newer statue, painted in colour and standing on a stainless steel pedestal, has been erected on Place Pelissiere.
Arganzuela Street in Madrid, at approximately number 30 on that street, has this curious rectangular hole in a brick wall where there is a relief with the number two and the word "amor" (love) painted on it.
I have not been able to get anyone in the vicinity of the place to explain to me what the meaning or history of this relief is.
Searching on Google Maps I have seen that this rectangular hole did not contain the number two some months ago, but I have not been able to find anything else.
It is a real enigma of popular art in the city.
UN NÚMERO DOS, MADRID, 2024
La calle Arganzuela de Madrid, a la altura del número 30 de esa calle, aproximadamente, tiene este curioso hueco rectangular de una pared de ladrillo en el que hay un relieve con el número dos y pintada palabra "amor".
No he logrado que nadie en los alrededores del lugar me explicara cuál es el significado o la historia de este relieve.
Rebuscando en Google Maps he visto que ese hueco rectangular no contenía meses atrás el número dos, pero no he logrado encontrar nada más.
Es todo un enigma del arte popular ciudadano.
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Da wie gesagt die drei umgeleiteten südwärtsfahrenden Güterzüge am 28. August 2018 im Blockabstand kamen, war nur eine kleine Motivvariation möglich. So entstand bei Harbatshofen diese etwas fahrzeugorientierte Version. 233 176 hatte den EZ 45194 von Hall in Tirol nach Bludenz am Haken. Sie brachte den hauptsächlich mit Tank-Containern beladenen Zug bis nach Lindau Reutin.
After the closing of the track was over the rerouted freight trains came right one after the other in the afternoon of August 28th 2018. As said before I was not able to switch to another photo-spot if I would not like to risk missing one train. But I decided to try this variation near Harbatshofen and took a closer picture of EZ 45194 from Hall in Tirol to Bludenz. It was hauled by DB Cargo's 233 176 which hauled the train to Lindau Reutin. There an engine from the ÖBB took over.
Chocolate is addictive because it contains sugar and fat that trigger brain reward pathways. Generally, highly processed foods, including chocolates, are considered more addictive than foods with minimal processing.
Like any other addictive food — can cause a withdrawal-like response when you stop eating it. High-sugar foods are on top of the list of commonly-craved foods among Americans, with the average American taking in about 22 teaspoons of added sugar daily.
Multiple studies find that typical sweets like chocolate or cookies can be as addictive as cocaine or morphine. (I wonder how many chocolate addicts have turned to robbery or violence to "feed" their habit).
Taunton, Somerset, UK.
According the online information,
our Milky Way galaxy contains tens of billions of potentially habitable planets, but we have no idea whether we’re alone. For now Earth is the only world known to harbor life, and among all the living things on our planet we assume Homo sapiens is the only species ever to have developed advanced technology
The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is an irregular galaxy, the closest neighbouring galaxy to the Earth's location in the Milky Way, being located about 25,000 light-years (236,000,000,000,000,000 km) away from our Solar System.
Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is located in the same part of the sky as the constellation Canis Major. Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere.The southern celestial hemisphere is also called the Southern Sky. Some constellations in the northern sky are Leo, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.
We hope that humans are able to travel that far one day if we are able to survive the dangers like asteroids, comets, global warming ,climate change, racism, nationalism, hunger, wars, viruses (like coronavirus), sicknesses, genetic-mutation, etc.
Old Havana (Spanish: La Habana Vieja) is the city-center (downtown) and one of the 15 municipalities (or boroughs) forming Havana, Cuba. It has the second highest population density in the city and contains the core of the original city of Havana. The positions of the original Havana city walls are the modern boundaries of Old Havana.
Old Havana is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lots of money through the international cooperations has been poured into that area in an attempt to reconstruct its old splendor and with that to boost tourism in Cuba. The place is not ready yet but it is quite interesting. Prices are very expensive. Havana was founded by the Spanish in 1519 in the natural harbor of the Bay of Havana.
Das alte Havanna (spanisch: La Habana Vieja) ist das Stadtzentrum (Innenstadt) und eine der 15 Gemeinden (oder Bezirke), die Havanna, Kuba, bilden. Es hat die zweithöchste Bevölkerungsdichte in der Stadt und enthält den Kern der ursprünglichen Stadt Havanna. Die Positionen der ursprünglichen Stadtmauer von Havanna sind die modernen Grenzen der Altstadt von Havanna.Die Altstadt von Havanna gehört zum UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe. Durch die internationalen Kooperationen wurde viel Geld in dieses Gebiet gesteckt, um seine alte Pracht wieder aufzubauen und damit den Tourismus in Kuba anzukurbeln. Der Ort ist noch nicht fertig, aber es ist ziemlich interessant. Die Preise sind sehr teuer. Havanna wurde 1519 von den Spaniern im natürlichen Hafen der Bucht von Havanna gegründet.
La Vieille Havane (en espagnol: La Habana Vieja) est le centre-ville (centre-ville) et l'une des 15 municipalités (ou arrondissements) formant La Havane, Cuba. Il a la deuxième densité de population la plus élevée de la ville et contient le noyau de la ville d'origine de La Havane. Les positions des murs d'origine de la ville de La Havane sont les limites modernes de la Vieille Havane.La Vieille Havane est un site du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. Beaucoup d'argent grâce aux coopérations internationales a été versé dans cette région pour tenter de reconstruire sa splendeur ancienne et avec cela pour stimuler le tourisme à Cuba. L'endroit n'est pas encore prêt mais c'est assez intéressant. Les prix sont très chers. La Havane a été fondée par les Espagnols en 1519 dans le port naturel de la baie de La Havane.
L'Avana Vecchia (in spagnolo: La Habana Vieja) è il centro città (centro città) e uno dei 15 comuni (o quartieri) che formano L'Avana, Cuba. Ha la seconda densità di popolazione più alta della città e contiene il nucleo della città originale dell'Avana. Le posizioni delle mura cittadine originali dell'Avana sono i confini moderni dell'Avana Vecchia.L'Avana Vecchia è un patrimonio mondiale dell'UNESCO. Un sacco di soldi attraverso le cooperazioni internazionali è stato versato in quella zona nel tentativo di ricostruire il suo antico splendore e con quello per aumentare il turismo a Cuba. Il posto non è ancora pronto ma è abbastanza interessante. I prezzi sono molto costosi L'Avana è stata fondata dagli spagnoli nel 1519 nel porto naturale della baia dell’Avana.
La Habana Vieja es el centro de la ciudad (centro) y uno de los 15 municipios (o distritos) que forman La Habana, Cuba. Tiene la segunda mayor densidad de población en la ciudad y contiene el núcleo de la ciudad original de La Habana. Las posiciones de las murallas originales de la ciudad de La Habana son los límites modernos de la Habana Vieja. La Habana Vieja es Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO. Se ha invertido mucho dinero a través de las cooperaciones internacionales en esa área en un intento de reconstruir su antiguo esplendor y con eso impulsar el turismo en Cuba. El lugar aún no está listo pero es bastante interesante. Los precios son muy caros. La Habana fue fundada por los españoles en 1519 en el puerto natural de la Bahía de La Habana.
Havana Velha (em espanhol: La Habana Vieja) é o centro da cidade (centro da cidade) e um dos 15 municípios (ou bairros) que formam Havana, Cuba. Possui a segunda maior densidade populacional da cidade e contém o núcleo da cidade original de Havana. As posições das muralhas originais da cidade de Havana são os limites modernos da Velha Havana.Havana Velha é um Patrimônio Mundial da UNESCO. Muito dinheiro através das cooperações internacionais foi despejado nessa área, na tentativa de reconstruir seu antigo esplendor e, com isso, impulsionar o turismo em Cuba. O local ainda não está pronto, mas é bastante interessante. Os preços são muito caros. Havana foi fundada pelos espanhóis em 1519 no porto natural da Baía de Havana.
Oud Havana (Spaans: La Habana Vieja) is het stadscentrum (centrum) en een van de 15 gemeenten (of stadsdelen) die Havana, Cuba vormen. Het heeft de op één na hoogste bevolkingsdichtheid van de stad en bevat de kern van de oorspronkelijke stad Havana. De posities van de originele stadsmuren van Havana zijn de moderne grenzen van Oud Havana.Oud Havana staat op de werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO. Veel geld via de internationale samenwerkingen is in dat gebied gestort in een poging de oude pracht te herstellen en daarmee het toerisme in Cuba te stimuleren. De plaats is nog niet klaar, maar het is best interessant. Prijzen zijn erg duur. Havana werd in 1519 door de Spanjaarden gesticht in de natuurlijke haven van de baai van Havana.
Schiffsdetails
Schiffstyp: Container ship
Baujahr: 2004
Länge x Breite: 294 m X 32 m
Bruttoregistertonnen: 54214, Tragfahigkeit: 68282 t
Eingetragene Geschwindigkeit (Max./Durchschnitt): 15.9 / 14 knots
Flagge: Marshall Is [MH]
Rufzeichen: V7MB9
IMO: 9287912, MMSI: 538002862
The collection contains close to one thousand automobiles of which 200 are on a rotating display at the hotel. Also a collection of classic and exotics for sale. They range in price from $39,000 to 2 million
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a concentration of pueblos. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States.[2]
Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancestral Puebloans.[a] Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes that remained the largest buildings ever built in North America until the 19th century.[2][4] Evidence of archaeoastronomy at Chaco has been proposed, with the "Sun Dagger" petroglyph at Fajada Butte a popular example. Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles,[5] requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction.[6] Climate change is thought to have led to the emigration of Chacoans and the eventual abandonment of the canyon, beginning with a fifty-year drought commencing in 1130.[7]
A UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the arid and sparsely populated Four Corners region, the Chacoan cultural sites are fragile—concerns of erosion caused by tourists have led to the closure of Fajada Butte to the public. The sites are considered sacred ancestral homelands by the Hopi and Pueblo people, who maintain oral accounts of their historical migration from Chaco and their spiritual relationship to the land.[8][9] Although park preservation efforts can conflict with native religious beliefs, tribal representatives work closely with the National Park Service to share their knowledge and respect the heritage of the Chacoan culture.[10]
The park is on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.[11]
This is by far the most wonderful Indian ruin I have ever been to. I love exploring old Indian ruins and got it from my Dad. He not only explored Indian ruins all of his life but had extensive collections of Indian artifacts and has donated them to a college in our hometown and a local museum. The American southwest is full of artifacts all over the country side and is a great pastime and a whole lot of fun :)
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Send Me the Pillow that you Dream On - Johnny Tillotson
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Mountain of Love - Johnny Rivers
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Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
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Never be Anyone but else but you - Ricky Nelson
I contain the blood of the past
And all the blood of the future
At some point you will want reconciliation
On your personal altar
My cup runneth over
With blood that has been spilled
How many more does there need to be
Until everybody has been killed?
Can a cup hold too much blood
When does it reach saturation point
Or will it keep soaking it up
Like the warriors of old all gobbled up
The dead were poured in
Hoping for resurrection to begin
Ready to fight again
The flame rising for a fleeting moment
But it is only a short glory
One part of the endless story
Fading into history
Barely glimpsed but still there
But that’s the lure
Of the promise of life everlasting
Repeating repeating
Always stopping but not really starting
Do you want to live again
False blood in your veins
Be honest be sure
Do you want to come back for more
My tears are now of blood
Running down my face
Is there any hope left for you
In this desolate place
This earth that I once called my home
Now you are all throwing stones
Any target will suffice
Especially if it is thrown with vice
Evil likes to use labels
It laughs when you mention Babel
Many voices all talking at once
Because is this not the truth of it all
Nobody is listening to those you once loved
All that is left after all these years
Is the scent of dried blood
And the screams in your ears
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I debated with myself for a long time as to whether this work should be posted. But as a person who has spent her photographic life wandering around churchyards and communing with the dead, how could I ignore what is going on the world? The answer to that is of course I cannot, and as parts of the world are tearing themselves apart the questions and answers that people have become all the more urgent.
I can provide the answers that I know personally to be true, but it does not mean anybody else will believe me. I can give comfort in my images, and it is there, but sometimes comfort is not enough. Other times a recognition that war, upheaval and death has visited our world again, and the fact that it affects everybody, no matter how far you stick your head in the sand, is needed; it needs to be acknowledged.
Is religion the cause of wars? Is it better to not believe in anything? Some prefer to live this way and one can understand the reasoning in these times of terrible upheaval. But faith is not the whole story for why wars happen. That is far too easy a reason to choose for wars. Add on the reasons of territory and power and we might get nearer to the truth.
Those that stand by their faith, or choose to be ‘faithful’ do so because it defines them, or they have had an experience that has changed their life, or they just ‘know’, and their minds will not be changed. Others are raised to believe, it is endemic in their culture. There are many reasons why people believe in their faith.
But where the question of death is concerned it is a great motivator in causing anxiety about your own life and how you might meet your demise. Suddenly everything narrows down. What comes after? Does anything come after? Faith provides some with answers, others just hope those answers are right.
Death…whether we like it or not, rules our lives and how we live it. Death is the greatest mystery on this earth. Death defines who we are, because we are constantly preparing for it, even when we think we are not. In other words, how we contemplate death results in how we live our lives and communicate with our fellow human beings while we are on this earth.
Death has a lot to answer for. But we can choose how we meet it, either with dignity or chaos.
I am aware that some people will not read all of this. And depending what account you have with Flickr, it might be too long even to attempt reading it all. Multi-scrolling is a nuisance, lets be honest.
So this work will also go up on my website, where you can read it at your leisure and in a better format for free. I will put a link on here when it is up. [See Below, now up].
I would also like to point out that this image has not been put through any kind of photoshop. All I have is the iPhoto App on my computer. I like to do the bare minimum as regards editing with my images, because that was how I was trained. And I spend enough hours writing, let alone messing about with anything else. I might crop, reduce or increase exposure, or add a filter if it warrants it.
This image was cropped from the original, to reduce the foreground. The exposure was taken down about two notches and that was it.
This cup creates its own atmosphere when I take it out. It tells its own story quite happily, or with sadness or despair. Often I just feel like a bystander, allowed to be in its presence, gifted with the knowledge it is imparting.
Then I share it with you.
I have paired this work with Miserere mei, Dues, by Gregorio Allegri. Performed by the Choir of New College, Oxford. The beauty of this piece is undeniable.
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I have now uploaded this work onto my website, a few reasons why; it is an important work for me personally...a strong work. It is also for this time in history. And it is so you can see it in the format closest to how I have designed it to be seen. It will be printed out and placed in my own portfolio as a finished work.
Here is the link to the Grail Poems page on my website. Just scroll down to the end.
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Isalo is one of Madagascar's most beautiful parks. It contains sculpted buttes, vertical rock walls and, best of all, deep canyon floors shot through with streams, lush vegetation and pools for swimming. All of this changes with the light, culminating in extraordinary sunsets beneath a big sky. Add all this to easy access off the RN7 and you understand why this is Madagascar’s most visited park.
At more than 800 sq km, it’s also a large park, so if you want to go off on your own there is plenty of room for exploration, with everything from two-hour to week-long hikes. There's also an excellent chance of spotting ring-tailed lemurs and Verreaux's sifaka around the Nemaza campsite.
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Isalo es uno de los parques más bellos de Madagascar. Contiene colinas esculpidas, paredes de roca verticales y, lo mejor de todo, profundos fondos de cañones atravesados por arroyos, exuberante vegetación y piscinas para nadar. Todo esto cambia con la luz, culminando en extraordinarios atardeceres bajo un gran cielo. Agregue todo esto al fácil acceso desde la RN7 y comprenderá por qué este es el parque más visitado de Madagascar.
Con más de 800 kilómetros cuadrados, también es un parque grande, por lo que si quieres ir por tu cuenta, hay mucho espacio para explorar, con todo tipo de caminatas, desde dos horas hasta una semana de duración. También existe una gran posibilidad de observar lémures de cola anillada y sifaka de Verreaux en los alrededores del camping de Nemaza.
L'Isalo est l'un des plus beaux parcs de Madagascar. Il contient des buttes sculptées, des parois rocheuses verticales et, mieux encore, de profonds fonds de canyons traversés de ruisseaux, d'une végétation luxuriante et de bassins pour la baignade. Tout cela change au gré de la lumière, pour aboutir à des couchers de soleil extraordinaires sous un ciel immense. Ajoutez à tout cela un accès facile depuis la RN7 et vous comprenez pourquoi c'est le parc le plus visité de Madagascar.
Avec plus de 800 km², c'est aussi un grand parc, donc si vous souhaitez partir seul, il y a beaucoup de place pour l'exploration, avec des randonnées allant de deux heures à une semaine. Il y a également de fortes chances d'apercevoir des lémuriens catta et des propithèques de Verreaux autour du camping Nemaza.
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